Friday, June 13, 2008

A Warning From The Death Star

Don't for one moment imagine your puny voice will carry against the might of the Empire. But through your impudence and ingratitude, you have chosen the path of destruction.

So be it. The Imperial Restitution Council is now in session, and the Giant Beam of Fiscal Doom has been calibrated.

Your one remaining chance of life is to prostrate yourselves in obeisance at the feet of His Most High Excellency José Manuel Barroso. Confess the error of your ways. Work with him to find salvation. Have faith in those who know what's good for you.

Or perish in the fires of budgetary damnation.

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Thank God for Ireland. In rejecting the Lisbon superstate stitch-up they have spoken for all the hundreds of millions who were given no voice. And just so we're clear, relative to its GDP, Ireland has been by far the biggest beneficiary of EU hand-outs since it joined alongside us in 1973:

In the first thirty years of membership it received a total of over €34 billion.

So if the Irish don't like the way the EU's heading, how much worse should we feel?

BOM the book now available

Drawing on six years of blogging government waste, this book shows how we spend far more than we need on our public services. It sets out the facts and explores the underlying issues. Just why does government spend so much and deliver such second rate service? Why do we put up with it? And what are the alternatives?

ABOUT BOM

Despite all the talk of cuts, government still consumes nearly half our national income. Yet many tens of billions of its spending is wasted, with taxpayers made to pick up the tab for a depressing array of overpriced sub-standard services. This is money we can no longer afford, and our National Debt is already at danger level.

If we're to avoid further decades of stagnation and austerity we urgently need to find another way. Exposing and understanding the wastefulness of government is a necessary step in the right direction.